Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet May Swenson.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright. Harold Bloom considered her one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century.
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.
The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.
Love is ... the bite into bread again.
Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen